Albert Einstein Trivia Questions

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Einstein was born a subject of which kingdom within the German Empire?

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These Albert Einstein trivia questions run in four rounds: his youth in Ulm, Munich and Zurich, relativity and quanta, his posts in Bern, Prague and Berlin, and fame, America and Princeton.

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Relativity and quanta needs no equations: it asks what the papers of 1905 were about, the equivalence principle, the cosmological constant, gravitational waves and the refrigerator he co-invented.

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What are some easy Albert Einstein trivia questions?

General relativity is a theory of what? What has E = mc2 been called? How old was Einstein when he died? The answers are gravitation, the world's most famous equation, and 76.

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No. It asks dates, places, posts, papers and ideas that the article records, and leaves out sayings, his private life and his views on religion and politics.

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Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article Albert Einstein, which every question links. His birthplace, the patent office and the Nobel citation are left to the site's physics and science packs.

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Ulm, Munich and Zurich 10

At 17 Einstein was heard playing violin sonatas by which composer? Answer: Beethoven. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Einstein graduated in 1900 certified to teach which two subjects? Answer: Mathematics and physics. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Einstein was born a subject of which kingdom within the German Empire? Answer: Württemberg. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
The family firm lost a contract to light Munich in 1894 because it lacked the money to move from direct current to what? Answer: Alternating current. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
In which city was the Swiss federal polytechnic school where Einstein enrolled at seventeen? Answer: Zurich. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
In which year did Einstein move to Switzerland? Answer: 1895. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
To which university did Einstein submit his successful PhD dissertation in 1905? Answer: The University of Zurich. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
What was the first name of Einstein's uncle, who founded an electrical company with his father? Answer: Jakob. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
What was the subject of Einstein's first paper? Answer: Capillary attraction. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Where did the Einsteins settle in 1880? Answer: Munich. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein

Relativity and quanta 13

General relativity is a theory of what? Answer: Gravitation. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
In a paper of 1905 Einstein proposed that what consists of localized particles, or quanta? Answer: Light. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
In which year did Einstein propose his general theory of relativity? Answer: 1915. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
What did Einstein predict in 1916, describing them as ripples in the curvature of spacetime? Answer: Gravitational waves. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
What has Einstein's formula E = mc2 been called? Answer: The world's most famous equation. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
What is the effect now called in which measuring one object instantly changes the description of another far away? Answer: Quantum entanglement. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
What is the English title of the 1905 paper that introduced special relativity? Answer: On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Which household machine did Einstein and Leó Szilárd co-invent in 1926? Answer: A refrigerator. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Which Latin phrase is sometimes used for Einstein's year 1905? Answer: Annus mirabilis. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Which motion, named for a botanist, did Einstein explain in 1905? Answer: Brownian motion. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Which principle of 1907 says that an observer falling freely in a box could find no evidence of the gravitational field? Answer: The equivalence principle. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Which term did Einstein add to his field equations so that they could describe a static universe? Answer: The cosmological constant. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
With which physicist did Einstein have the debate of 1930 that gave him his favorite argument about quantum mechanics? Answer: Bohr. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein

Bern, Prague and Berlin 10

After the eclipse observations of 1919 were widely reported, Einstein became perhaps the world's first what? Answer: Celebrity scientist. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
At which university did Einstein secure a junior teaching position in 1908? Answer: The University of Bern. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Einstein was a figurehead leader in establishing which university, opened in 1925? Answer: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
In which city did Einstein take up a full professorship in April 1911? Answer: Prague. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 1921 was carried forward. In which year was it awarded to Einstein? Answer: 1922. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Of which institute did Einstein become director in 1917? Answer: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Roughly how many scientific papers did Einstein publish? Answer: More than 300. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
To which city did Einstein move in 1914 to join the Prussian Academy of Sciences? Answer: Berlin. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
To which rank did the patent office promote Einstein in 1906? Answer: Technical Examiner Second Class. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Which first conference on physics did Einstein attend from October 30 to November 3, 1911? Answer: The Solvay Conference. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein

Fame, America and Princeton 11

A research fellowship at which institute drew Einstein back to the United States in December 1930? Answer: The California Institute of Technology. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
How old was Einstein when he died in 1955? Answer: 76. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
In a 1999 survey of rank-and-file physicists, who took first place, with Einstein second? Answer: Isaac Newton. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
In which London hall did Einstein speak on academic freedom on October 3, 1933? Answer: The Royal Albert Hall. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
In which year did Einstein, on a visit to the United States, know that he could not return to Germany? Answer: 1933. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
On which date did Einstein first arrive in America? Answer: April 2, 1921. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
What was the title of the essay Einstein published in July 1921? Answer: My First Impression of the U.S.A. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Which citizenship did Einstein keep for the rest of his life once he had acquired it? Answer: Swiss. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Which council, founded in April 1933 by William Beveridge, helped academics such as Einstein to leave Germany? Answer: The Academic Assistance Council. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Who received the letter that Einstein endorsed on the eve of World War II? Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein
With which institute was Einstein affiliated until his death in 1955? Answer: The Institute for Advanced Study. Source: Wikipedia: Albert Einstein

How this list was compiled

Written for this site; nothing was copied from another list. Questions and wrong choices are our own. Each explanation restates, in our own sentences, a fact from the English Wikipedia article named and linked beside the question (https://en.wikipedia.org, text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license): Albert Einstein. The article was read on October 3, 2026, and the passage that states each fact was found in it before the question was kept. The pack asks dates, places, posts, papers and ideas by name. Left out on purpose: his private life, his health, his views on religion and politics, and sayings the article does not record. Levels are our estimate: easy is fair for any table, medium suits people who know the subject, hard will stump most tables. Each question also carries the date its article was read. Licence: own work